- concludes III International Seminar on Judicial Election Monitoring
Electoral Court judges of the Judiciary of the Federation have the responsibility to guarantee all citizens their political rights and electoral vote, be voted and associate, the judge reiterated Maria del Carmen Alanis Figueroa, president of the Upper Chamber of the agency, at the end of the III International Seminar Judicial Electoral Observatory.
added that the judges have a responsibility to strictly enforce the law and the Constitution to issue its decisions, to participate in a roundtable "The suspension of stand as a candidate for formal arrest and sentencing ".
stressed that this issue is a fundamental aspect of the organization and qualification election in our country, being the exercise of political rights and access to public office through elections.
For his part, Dr. Miguel Carbonell, Research Institute Law of the UNAM, called for giving priority to the principle of presumption of innocence before restricting these rights.
In turn, the researcher Marco Olivetti, University of Foggia, Italy, agreed with the benefits of putting the presumption of innocence over the suspension of rights, while recognizing that judges should solve practical problems and conform to specific situations by issuing their own judgments.
The Dr. Virginia Pujadas, Open University of Catalonia, questioned the suspension of political rights even if no criminal conviction and said he did not notice in the Mexican legal system a legal foundation for it.
party autonomy should stick to law
During the panel "The internal democracy of political parties," the judge said Pedro Esteban Penagos Mexico has privileged the autonomy of the parties and freedom of political organization, even where a court action to oversee the democratic principles of its constitution and the legality of intra-party functions.
"There is a finished or perfect democracy, democracies are always progressing outside the principles of liberty and equality, "said Pena. In this table you Eleonora Ceccherini also attended the University of Genoa, Italy, María del Pilar Hernández Martínez del Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM, and Oscar Sanchez Muñoz of the Parliament of Castilla y Leon in Spain.
courts guarantees of legality and freedom of expression
When discussing the panel "The media and political campaigns, neutrality and fairness," Judge Manuel González noted that "the constitutional courts are the ones to decide on the interpretation of the provisions of the Constitution and the law "in this matter, bearing in mind the freedom of expression, the first of the regimes constitutional freedoms.
participated in this table Saul Lopez Noriega, a law degree from ITAM, Rodrigo Morales Manzanares, electoral experts, and Sergio Muñoz Gajardo, President of the Jury of Elections in Chile, who addressed the issue of Constitutional Reform Legal, 2007 and 2008, relating to radio and television time for political parties.
on the table "Media communication and political campaigns. The Anglo comparative case, "experts Samuel Issacharoff, New York University, Julio Juarez Gámiz, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Sciences and Humanities, UNAM, and Jacob Rowbottom, University of Cambridge, presented examples of political campaigns, financing and electoral propaganda contracted by individuals on behalf of any candidate.
After two days of work, 387 attendees shared -65% women, with 29 specialists from Canada, El Salvador, Spain, Italy, Argentina, Chile, Switzerland, USA, UK and Mexico discussed around 30 TEPJF Case concerning:
• The annulment of the election by constitutional principles
• The right to occupy the post popular, parliamentary and municipal issues
• Direct democracy
• Democracy
internal party • Media and political campaigns, neutrality and fairness
• The suspension of stand as a candidate for formal arrest and sentencing
In the closing part of Judge Alanis Figueroa, Eugenio Chicas Martinez President of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of El Salvador and Enrique Ochoa Reza, Director of the Judicial Training Centre TEPJF Elections.
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